After you setup Chatlio, we recommend you turn on notifications for the Chatlio connected support channel.

If desired, you can also set mobile notifications for Slack to be sent as soon as possible. Go to https://slack.com/account/notifications > “customize your notification settings”, select “Send push notifications as quickly as possible when I’m not active on the desktop”.

Additionally, you can turn on alerts so that Chatlio notifies you every 30 seconds for 5 minutes if no one has answered a visitor. From Slack issue the Chatlio command /chatlio response-reminders.

Chatlio is a way for organizations to talk directly with their customers, users, potential customers, etc, on their website(s) directly from Slack. Once you have the widget installed on your website, there are two modes that the widget operates in, “Online” or “Offline”.

The Chatlio widget is “online” when one or more Slack users in the Chatlio channel have a Slack status of “active”. When online, visitors (people viewing your website with Chatlio) can open the Chatlio chat widget and ask questions. When a new visitor asks their first question, Chatlio sends a message to the main Chatlio channel in Slack with information about the vistor and a link to a dedicated Slack channel. Eg.

To respond back to the visitor, a Slack operator simply joins the newly created channel and starts sending messages. All messages entered in the dedicated channel go directly back to the visitor. Slack operators can invite other Slack users to the channel, use emoji’s, send files/links, etc. to visitors just like any normal Slack conversation.

A conversation can be ended directly from Slack by issuing the /chatlio end or simply by typing /leave command in the dedicated conversation channel. If configured in Chatlio dashboard, this will email the chat transcript and/or post the transcript to a webhook of your choosing. Ending the conversation archives the channel in Slack, removing it immediately from the Slack sidebar.

If the operator does not end the conversation, Chatlio will automatically archive the channel after 12 hours.

If the visitor returns later to chat, Chatlio un-archives the channel with all the previous chat history available for viewing.

If “Chat end” is enabled in the Chatlio dashboard then after a conversation has been ended the visitor will be presented with a feedback form allowing for the chat to be rated & and will enable the user to submit a transcript of the conversation to themselves. This feedback will be posted directly to the #live-chat channel and available to view from the Reports Dashboard

There are several Chatlio commands available in Slack for operators to control Chatlio. You can consult the full list of commands here or by issuing /chatlio help in Slack but here are some useful examples:

Most importantly, type /chatlio help to see a full list of the most current commands

API

We offer a full featured javascript API to give you the ultimate control over your Chatlio widget. It allows you to open/close widget programatically, send in your own visitor/customer data, eg. email, name, dynamicaly set text for multi language support, etc. And much, much more.

Chatlio is a 3rd party Slack Experience. It is not created by,
affiliated with, or supported by Slack Technologies, Inc.